Name your services and your team in links

Released 19 August 2026

Your services and the people on your rota now have short link names of their own — so you can send someone straight to "book a haircut" instead of a page full of choices, and call the API in words instead of long codes.

What's new

• A link name for every service and every person — hair-cut, dr-meera. You choose it when you add them, it's shown beside them in your appointment setup with a copy button, and it works anywhere the long code used to.
• A booking link per service — hand out yourname.wa.cr/book/hair-cut over the phone, on a card, or in your bio, and it opens straight on the times for that one service. It's the same booking page as before, so it still looks like you and is still found by search.
• Readable API calls — ask for free times with ?service=hair-cut&staff=dr-meera instead of two long codes. Both forms work, so nothing you've already built needs changing, and the reply now tells you the link name alongside the code.
• Link names don't move — a link name is set when you create the service or add the person, and stays put after that. Anything already using it — a printed card, an integration someone wrote last month — keeps working.
• Put a practitioner and their login together — someone on your rota can now be pointed at the team member they sign in as. That's what lets us show that person their own diary and send their bookings to their own phone.
• Still optional, and still no extra seat — a visiting stylist or a doctor who never signs in gets a diary exactly as before. Linking someone never costs you a seat, and if they ever leave your workspace the link simply clears — their diary and everything booked in it stay as they are.

You'll find link names and the team-member picker under Settings → Appointments, on the services and rota steps.